Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We have been writing for months about claims of misconduct being made against the boss of a major standardbred yearling sales company. There are only two. Nutrien and APG. And the Nutrien boss Mark Burton is a stand up guy who respects women to the nth degree. APG CEO Anthony Essex (pictured at top) is […]
Gawler is no more Adelaide than the Gold Coast is Brisbane. The APG Yearling Sale venue in Gawler is no more the Magic Millions sale yard than I am George Clooney. This was no more a sale than you are Diego Maradona. It was just a joke. The top priced lot brought only $18 grand. […]
The APG Yearling sale in South Australia is about to kick off, and if the parade of lots before the sale is any guide the whole thing looks like an absolute shambles. Gawler is the venue for this year’s sale, and as you can see from the footage above it is totally inadequate. There is […]
The rumors out of APG Sydney post-yearling sale event are ugly. Apparently a very senior unpaid official of the company manhandled a staff member that they were for one reason or another extremely unhappy with. The official was said to have been drinking red wine heavily for many hours before the incident, and is reported […]
Why the hell do people insist on saying this sort of stuff on their professional profiles? Wouldn’t it just be assumed that a bloke who is married is a good family man who loves his wife and kids? After all, that is the whole point of being married and being a father isn’t it? What’s […]
I thought the APG standardbred yearling sale a week ago in Perth did great by averaging $40 768 per lot. 2026 Perth Sale Results But yesterday’s Nutrien sale in Sydney did even better. $45 671.42 it averaged. For an Aussie yearling sale without jacked up half million plus dollar races for local bred 2-year-olds like […]
What you see above are the terms and conditions as they relate to passed in lots at the APG Yearling Sale. As you can see if a lot gets passed in and the vendor of the unsold yearling wants to sustain it (make it eligible) for the sales race series they have to pay 10% […]
Gilbert and my good self wandered over the road to the APG Yearling Sale up at Middle Swan today, keen to see who would be emptying their pockets chasing Harness’s “Clayton’s Pot of Gold”…you know the stakes boost you see when you don’t actually have a stakes boost? With “Diamonds and Pearls” playing over the […]
APG bounced back from a somewhat disappointing QLD yearling sale last week with a bang yesterday in Melbourne, with the average prices up around 30% to $23 847 , the upper end of the catalogue a lot stronger than at Ipswich, and clearance rates a lot better at 78.67%. The two top priced lots of […]
The APG sale at Ipswich yesterday was a weird one. Only 19 lots of the 41 lots on offer sold, at an appalling clearance rate of just 46.34%. If Inglis or the Magic millions only sold those sort of numbers they would give up. NZ Standardbred would too. There were three reasons for the low […]
